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Gag Rule

Definition: Gag Rule

Gag Rule

Noun

1. A rule for ending debate in a deliberative body.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Synonyms: Gag Rule

Synonyms: closure (n), cloture (n). (additional references)

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Specialty Definition: Gag Rule

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

The Gag Rule was first implemented in 1836. The United States House of Representatives and Senate annually ruled that all petitions to Congress about slavery would be tabled without consideration. Senator (and former President) John Quincy Adams was famous for his annual opposition to this resolution. Ultimately the United States Civil War decided the issue.

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Gag Rule."

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Commercial Usage: Gag Rule

DomainTitle

Books

  • Title X regulations (the gag rule)--health implications for poor women : hearing of the Committee on Labor and Human Resources, United States Senate, One Hundred Second Congress, first session on oversight hearings on the implementation of Title X regulat (reference)

    (more book examples)

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Gag Rule

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

gag rule

12
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Modern Translations: Gag Rule

Language Translations for "gag rule"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Pig Latin

  

aggay uleray.(various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Gag Rule

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-e-g-g-l-r-u"

-1 letter: gargle, gauger, gurgle, lagger, lugger, raggle.

-2 letters: agger, argle, argue, auger, eggar, gager, gauge, glare, gluer, gruel, gulag, gular, gurge, lager, large, luger, regal, rugae, rugal, ureal.

-3 letters: ager, ague, earl, egal, gage, gale, gaur, gear, gleg, glue, glug, grue, guar, lear, luge, lure, rage, rale, real, ruga, rule, urea, urge.

-4 letters: age, ale, are, ear, eau, egg, era, erg, gae, gag, gal, gar, gel, gul, lag, lar, lea, leg, leu, lug, rag, reg, rue, rug.

-5 letters: ae, ag, al, ar, el, er, la, re.

 Words containing the letters "a-e-g-g-l-r-u"
 

+3 letters: leaguering, regulating.

 

+4 letters: bullyragged.

 

+5 letters: beglamouring, beleaguering, deregulating, gregariously, lifeguarding, paralanguage, regularizing, reregulating, slaughtering, sluggardness, sparkplugged.

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Alternative Orthography: Gag Rule


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

47 61 67      52 75 6C 65

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000111 01100001 01100111 00100000 01010010 01110101 01101100 01100101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#71 &#97 &#103 &#32 &#82 &#117 &#108 &#101

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0047 0061 0067      0052 0075 006C 0065

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

416773252877871

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Expressions: Internet
5. Translations: Modern
6. Anagrams
7. Orthography
8. Bibliography


  

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